- Decreased sugar and salt cravings after day 3
- I was enjoying dinner more than ever before eating with little variety, but all organic and healthy
- In the past, we've done "cheat meals" from time to time and when my wife asked for one last night, I had no desire to partake in it. That's never happened before.
- Maybe it's just me, but I see muscular changes, however subtle, in my body. Looks like I'm either retaining more muscle mass than before, or possibly gaining.
- Despite the extreme drop in caloric intake over a 6 day period, I did not lose any weight and may have even put on a pound or two.
That last bullet point deserves further attention. I have always had a problem gaining weight. Prior to becoming a Chiropractor or even learning about healthy eating, I did some crazy things to gain weight. In undergrad, I went on the Big Mac/Whopper diet where I would have 1-2 of the toxic sandwiches per meal along with fries and a shake. I did that for almost a month and gained a whopping 2 pounds. Most people would expect a 10-15 pound gain if not more. In my early twenties, I went on the most successful weight gain campaign ever. I would consume 30-40 grams of protein per meal and do high intensity weight training 3-4 days per week. After 30 days, I put on a grand total of about 7 pounds.
The problem was I never addressed the root cause: hormone resistance. My body was so effective at burning sugar, that I rarely stored it as fat, But because it became so efficient at burning sugar, it could not burn fat. My leptin receptors became blunted and my brain would never get the messages to burn fat for energy. As a result, my body would catabolize my muscle for sugar to make energy. The 30 day fast food diet I did made things worse as I look back on it because it increased my overall cellular inflammation and the little weight I did gain was due to fat stores increasing while muscle mass was rapidly decreasing. When I finally took on the weight training and high protein intake diet, I was finally able to burn that fat off and build muscle at a slightly faster rate than my body was breaking it down.
The missing piece was addressing cellular inflammation, which I have done throughout the years through chiropractic care, the cellular healing diet, exercise, and detox. Intermittent fasting has been so successful for me in only 6 days because it addresses two of the above four items: cellular inflammation and detox. Detox pathways are supported by intermittent fasting, especially when consuming large quantities of cultured whey and dairy along with fermented vegetables and purely grass fed beef like the kinds you can get from Beyond Organic. Since discovering Chiropractic and its benefits to promoting optimal function of the entire body, I have regularly been adjusted. Exercise is one of the areas I still need to improve dramatically on, but I am making huge leaps there. I'm getting 2 burst training sessions in per week which incorporate resistance training. I should be getting in 3 cardio focused burst training sessions per week with a 15-30 minutes resistance session prior to each. I'm working my way up.
If you'd like to experience the above benefits of Intermittent Fasting, read my previous blogs that explain the process, and go to Beyond Organic and stockup on the Amasai and SueroGold. Indulge in some GreenFinished Beef and Grass-fed cheese while you are at it. The more you enjoy the process, the easier it is.
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